How can I disable Apple Intelligence on my iPhone?

Okay, here’s the deal. AI will be included whether you want it or not. You have no control over that. All smartphones will have it. You cannot uninstall it. Your only choice is to not use it. Using it is completely optional. But know you have been using AI for years, you just didn't think about it. eMail apps use AI to filter junk mail. Siri uses AI to get information you ask for. The maps app you get directions from uses AI. FaceID you use to unlock your iPhone uses it. Almost every task you take on uses AI in one from or another.

First of all, this feature has NOT been released. And there is no reason to need to turn off something you don't intend to use. In order to use it, you'd have to identify what you'd want to remove and confirm you want it removed. Your post is like saying I want to turn off the ability to change which camera you use as you will only use one camera. That doesn't make sense and as is the case with all photo features, you choose which you use when you want to use them. And you don't use features available to you, if you don't want to use them.

Bottom line, don't edit photos or remove objects in them if you don't want to remove objects.

Cuso4 wrote:

if it can not be disabled, I’m keeping my 13 forever and I’m not allowing updates. This just made my any decision about replacing my PC and tablet much easier.

You think you will avoid AI by switching to a different platform? Think again. It’s everywhere including the other platforms. Your only option is to simply not use it. With Apple AI it’s opt-in, not opt-out. If you want it you have to turn it on. If you don’t want it you don't have to do anything, It’s off by default.

AppleTechnition wrote:

Yes you can. settings>AppleIntelligence>Exit_Waitlist.

If you experience any more issues read the official guide.

It’s clear that YOU have not read the official guide, because if you did you would know that your answer is wrong.

Yeah. I mean, I’m okay with AI capabilities, even as an artist. It’s angering, but inethicality in the art industry persists even without the introduction of AI, and like all else, it’s a tool. A tool I don’t want to use, with its benefits and downsides, but a tool. It should exist in a neutral context, but like everything else, it’s used in the way it is because of circumstance around us.

This is a wee tangent, but most people here are angry purely about Gen. AI, and it doesn’t look like they know that that’s the specific thing they’re criticizing, and I empathize and wholly understand the trepidation and resistance, so I don’t get why people in this thread are clarifying that “actually, AI is such a general term that it’s useless to just say AI-features,”: true, but its usage now is significantly different from its use in reference to the usual stuff we’ve seen it used for prior to 2023-2024.

But I think a lot of the fuss about them has to do with other things that manifest as people being afraid of AI taking their roles, but I also recognize the worry over stuff like privacy: I just really, really wish (and this is pretty par for the course with regards to Apple’s resistance to user customization,) that it was something I could actually turn off: as of now, it looks like it’s now constantly in the right-click menu, pestering and begging me like a child. Irritates me, but I feel sort of resigned. This is the way AI’s gonna be used, and it’s not something endemic to Apple. But the way it slots in now is pretty aggravating, constantly being shoved down your throat.

tboyd1120 wrote:

I don’t want Apple AI on my phone, the UP phone is looking like my next alternative. I have stopped updating at iOS 17. If they don’t fix it so we can opt out I’m getting unplugged phone (UP put) next.

You really need to evaluate the source of the information you are receiving and maybe look for something more reliable. Not even sure if you have read any of the posts here in the directly related thread. You are automatically opted out and would need to opt in even if you had a phone that supported it, which likely is not even the case.

tboyd1120 wrote:

I don’t want Apple AI on my phone, the UP phone is looking like my next alternative. I have stopped updating at iOS 17. If they don’t fix it so we can opt out I’m getting unplugged phone (UP put) next.

Then don’t turn it on. It is off by default, and if you want to use it leave it off.

To disable Apple Intelligence on your iPhone, you can turn off features related to Siri and other predictive services that rely on machine learning. First, go to Settings > Siri & Search and disable options like Listen for "Hey Siri,"Press Side Button for Siri, and Suggestions in Search. Additionally, you can limit certain app tracking and personal data usage by navigating to Settings > Privacy & Security and managing app permissions or adjusting settings for Location Services and Analytics & Improvements.

IdrisSeabright wrote:

Does AT&T still even make landline phones?

In 2019, I bought a house that had been renovated in 2018. It has no landline jacks. ;-)

Yep, I was looking at mine plugged into the wall when I posted that. I guess I don't have one of those fancy homes.

Funny enough I have read about conversion kits to use the existing telephone wiring in the home and convert them to USB charging faceplates. Attach the lines to a power adapter where they enter the house and plug into an outlet. Hopefully they are USB-C, otherwise another renovation may be in order soon.

IdrisSeabright wrote:

In 2019, I bought a house that had been renovated in 2018. It has no landline jacks. ;-)

Tools can get you jacks.

Been installing keystone outlets, cabling, and structured racks for a while now.

For wiring, this Leviton gear works quite well: https://leviton.com/products/residential/networking

“Khajit, err, Leviton has wares if you have coin”, as the kids might put it.

Why do they force things we do not want. Keep the bugs out and security up to date. We paid for phone and service. We are well aware of how to get an app. I do not want AI, it is getting on my nerves.

I'm going to read on and hope we can find out how to turn off or get rid of it.

wakachewbacca wrote:

Yeah, my current Apple products will be my last. The more any company pushes AI the more of a Luddite I become. Already ditched my AWU, selling my MBP, and once I find a suitable dumb cellphone, goodbye iPhone.

You do realize that Apple Intelligence is OFF by default and you would have to actually turn it on before it would be available. If you don't have at least an iPhone 15 Pro, you wouldn't even have the option to turn it on if you wanted too.

Anyways, good luck with your search.

wakachewbacca wrote:

Yeah, my current Apple products will be my last. The more any company pushes AI the more of a Luddite I become. Already ditched my AWU, selling my MBP, and once I find a suitable dumb cellphone, goodbye iPhone.

OK. Not sure why you felt compelled to tell us that, but buy whatever you want. We don't honestly need to know or honestly care.

Of course you likely didn't bother to read this thread, which would have told you Apple Intelligence is Opt-In only. If you don't want AI, you don't get it. But enjoy that flip phone or whatever you choose.

lobsterghost1 wrote:

wakachewbacca wrote:

Yeah, my current Apple products will be my last. The more any company pushes AI the more of a Luddite I become. Already ditched my AWU, selling my MBP, and once I find a suitable dumb cellphone, goodbye iPhone.

OK. Not sure why you felt compelled to tell us that, but buy whatever you want. We don't honestly need to know or honestly care.

Of course you likely didn't bother to read this thread, which would have told you Apple Intelligence is Opt-In only. If you don't want AI, you don't get it. But enjoy that flip phone or whatever you choose.

It ought to be "interesting" when the OP learns that Microsoft Windows now has CoPilot (Microsoft's A.I. stuff) built in – and that while you can turn off CoPilot, you can't remove it from the operating system.

If the OP stops using all Apple products, and then stops using Windows PCs for good measure, what will be left?

Oh well, I guess that's the OP's problem …

Servant of Cats wrote:

lobsterghost1 wrote:

wakachewbacca wrote:

Yeah, my current Apple products will be my last. The more any company pushes AI the more of a Luddite I become. Already ditched my AWU, selling my MBP, and once I find a suitable dumb cellphone, goodbye iPhone.

OK. Not sure why you felt compelled to tell us that, but buy whatever you want. We don't honestly need to know or honestly care.

Of course you likely didn't bother to read this thread, which would have told you Apple Intelligence is Opt-In only. If you don't want AI, you don't get it. But enjoy that flip phone or whatever you choose.

It ought to be "interesting" when the OP learns that Microsoft Windows now has CoPilot (Microsoft's A.I. stuff) built in – and that while you can turn off CoPilot, you can't remove it from the operating system.

If the OP stops using all Apple products, and then stops using Windows PCs for good measure, what will be left?

Oh well, I guess that's the OP's problem …

Yes, it's their problem. The irrational fear of AI is baffling to me.